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SCIENTIST

ABOUT WIKIFOODS, INC

LOCATION
Cambridge, MA

ABOUT WIKIFOODS
WikiFoods is a transformative nutrition delivery company with innovative products that
broaden food experiences and enhance human health with minimal impact to the natural
environment. Inspired by nature, WikiFoods technology wraps a vast range of foods and
beverages in edible packaging made from natural ingredients. Like the skins of grapes,
our technology is not just a barrier against water loss and contaminant entry, but also a
medium for added nutrient content. This technology was recently named to Time
Magazine’s 25 best inventions of 2014, and sees WikiFoods redefining food and beverage
packaging, and ultimately, creating the future of food.

JOB SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly motivated Scientist to join our R&D department. This is a full time
laboratory position focused on the development and analysis of novel biomaterials for food
& beverage encapsulation. The selected candidate will also be required to work
seamlessly with the Engineering department to help design and build benchtop-scale
equipment for the automation of various encapsulation strategies.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• PhD in materials science, polymer chemistry, chemical engineering or related field with 0-3 years’ experience or MS with 3+ years’ experience or BS with 5+ years’ experience
• Experience with natural biopolymer systems for drug encapsulation, biodegradable films, or scaffold fabrication
• Experience with material characterization (e.g. mechanical properties, surface characterization) and basic analytical chemistry
• Driven self-starter able to work on various projects and roles in a fast-paced startup environment
• Background with building and/or operating complex equipment
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within an intimate team
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

In Unicode, the Private Use Areas (PUA) are three ranges of code points (U+E000–U+F8FF in the BMP, and in planes 15 and 16) that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. The code points in these areas can not be considered as standardized characters in Unicode itself. They are intentionally left undefined so that third parties may define their own characters without conflicting with Unicode Consortium assignments. Under the Unicode Stability Policy,[1] the Private Use Areas will remain allocated for that purpose in all future Unicode versions.

Assignments to Private Use Area characters need not be “private” in the sense of strictly internal to an organisation; a number of assignment schemes have been published by several organisations. Such publication may include a font that supports the definition (showing the glyphs), and software making use of the private-use characters (e.g. a graphics character for a “print document” function). By definition, multiple private parties may assign different characters to the same code point, with the consequence that a user may see one private character from an installed font where a different one was intended.

Definition[edit]

Under the Unicode definition, code points in the Private Use Areas are assigned characters—they are not noncharacters, reserved, or unassigned. Their category is “Other, private use (Co)“, and no character names are specified. No representative glyphs are provided, and character semantics are left to private agreement.

Private-use characters are assigned Unicode code points whose interpretation is not specified by this standard and whose use may be determined by private agreement among cooperating users. These characters are designated for private use and do not have defined, interpretable semantics except by private agreement.

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No charts are provided for private-use characters, as any such characters are, by their very nature, defined only outside the context of this standard.[2]

Assignment[edit]

In the Basic Multilingual Plane (plane 0), the block titled Private Use Area has 6400 code points. Planes 15 and 16 are almost[note 1] entirely assigned to two further Private Use Areas, Supplemental Private Use Area-A and Supplemental Private Use Area-B respectively.

In order to encode characters from planes 15 and 16 in UTF-16, a further block of the BMP is assigned to High Private Use Surrogates (U+DB80..U+DBFF, 128 code points).